Cybersecurity
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At least three states have taken action following the cyber attack, which exposed sensitive personal and medical information. Hackers accessed a company network during a nearly three-month period.
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Federal lawmakers reactivated the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program earlier this month — but the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees it, is in partial shutdown.
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The city currently cannot process some online credit card payments, because of a cyber attack on one of its payment gateway providers. Officials are working to stand up a secure alternative solution.
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"We are committed to aggressively detecting, apprehending and prosecuting individuals responsible for committing or perpetuating crimes against children through the use of the Internet or electronic media."
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"Data center managers are running out of space and energy costs are skyrocketing, so they are motivated to 'green' the data center for cost reduction and efficiency purposes."
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"I'm sure, you don't believe me. But i think the record of your yesterday's conversation will assure you that everything is real," says fake private eye in spam e-mail.
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$137 billion global infrastructure investment could be required to prevent Internet "brownouts."
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"Typo-squatting illustrates the Wild West mentality that remains dominant in major portions of the Internet."
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"The Internet provides our young people exciting, ever-expanding opportunities for learning and communicating, but online dangers are also growing and evolving."
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While 62 percent of the public believe that the private and public sectors are as bad each other when it comes to defending this personal data, almost a third of users believe the public sector does a worse job.
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"When mistakes happen in enforcing procedures we have a duty to do everything we can to protect the public...we will do everything in our power to make sure data is safe," said Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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In the past few years, about one private record for every two Americans has been stolen via data breaches alone. Internet crime's total yearly cost to U.S. businesses, including indirect expenses like paying employees to repair hacked systems, has risen as high as $67 billion, according to an FBI analysis last year. And public entities have a much greater challenge than corporations in protecting their information from cybercrimes.
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In getting to Web sites, neatness counts. If you type in the wrong Web address, you might be in for a surprise.
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A leading security software provider advises on managing desktop security risks within organizations during the holiday online shopping season.
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While a western ideal of individualism may not be in the near future for Chinese society, these findings show that the Internet is transforming China in a unique way -- towards liberalism with Chinese characteristics.
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A technique Called "Man in the Browser" becomes more popular among cyber criminals.
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"Whether you're from Malibu or Manhattan, Tacoma or Tallahassee, no one is immune to identity theft."
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"Governments need to work hard to reassure voters that they are taking all necessary measures to ensure data is always kept securely. This study shows that public feeling on this issue is strong, and that embarrassing and potentially dangerous incidents like the one last week only further damage the trust that people need to have in the guardians of their confidential data."
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Communications and transmission security architecture successfully demonstrated of Transformational Satellite Communications System(TSAT).
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ORC will provide Virtual Private Network (VPN) end-to-end two factor authentication with RSA SecurID.
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New solution brings PC-strength protection to smartphones.
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